Enoch Dumas was a street person who lived in inner-city Chicago. He was among a group of other street people who attended The Place, a Christian group whose ministry was to help them get to know Jesus Christ. After the people who ran The Place were all raptured, Enoch and the group of attendees that were left behind all became believers and continued to live in Chicago, though they had to move underground when they heard that the city was irradiated by a missile attack. About halfway through the Tribulation, Enoch encountered Chloe Williams who was also hiding out in the devastated city and discovered that the radiation was simply a ruse to cover the Tribulation Force activities within the city. When the Global Community learned of this ruse and decided to destroy Chicago with a nuclear mi